Fastener.



PATENTED JULY 5, 1904.

1). A. BREAUX, DEGD.

A. BREAUX, ADMINISTRATOR.

PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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PATENT FFTCE.

DONALD A. BREAUX, OF LEROY, LOUISIANA; ALEXANDER BREAUX ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID DONALD A. BREAUX, DECEASED.

FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 763,955, dated July 5, 1904.

i Application filed September 18, 1903. Serial No- 1'73,725. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DONALD A. BREAUX, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leroy, in the parish of Vermilion and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a novel form of fastener for use in its especial adaptation as securing means for hames.

The device consists, essentially, of an attaching portion or shank adapted to receive a binder and a pivoted lock member carried by the shank for cooperation to secure the binder in a relative position as regards the aforesaid shank. It will be understood that the fastener embodied in my invention may be utilized in various ways other than as a hamefastener means.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and drawings hereto attached.

hile the essential and characteristic features of the invention are susceptible of modification, still the preferred embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the fastener, showing a binder applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the fastener alone. Fig. 3 is a top plan View of the fastener device. I

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

As before premised, the device which coinprises the invention consists of two essential elementsnamely, a shank 1 and a pivoted member 2, which cooperates with the shank in a manner which will appear more fully as the description proceeds and which positively engages the bindcr, which is designated 3. The

shank 1 is cut away centrally, as shown at l,

to lighten the structure. At one end of the shank 1 is provided an opening 5, through which the binder 3 passes preparatory to securing the same by means of the device. At the end of the shank 1 opposite to that in which the opening 5 is located is disposed a hook 6, which is projected from the shank and which is of integral formation with the same. The end portion of the hook 6 is bifurcated, and member 2 is pivotally secured between the bifurcated portions of the hook at one end thereof. The member 2 comprises a tongue provided at its free end with a jaw 7, the inner faces of which are serrated, toothed, or roughened at 8. When the device is used for securing hames, the binder 3, attached to one of the hames, has its free end passed through the opening 5 of the shank 1 and engaged by the clamp member, being received within the jaw 7 of the said member. The binder 3 is thus held rigidly when the parts are assembled as above indicated, the serrated jaw portions of the tongue or mem her 2 facilitating the binding action of the same. The hook 6 would be secured to the opposite hame or whatever may be the part with which the device is used.

The fastener embodies an extreme simplicity of structure and may be very cheaply manufactured for this reason. The said fastener is peculiarly adapted for use in securing rope binders, though it will be obvious that any suitable form of binder may be combined for cooperation with the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is l. A fastener comprising a plate having an opening near one end and an overhanging arm at the opposite end, and a clamp member pivoted to the overhanging arm, said clamp member when in engaging relation being inclined toward the plane of the plate at its free end which is forked and adapted to extend across the opening of said plate.

2. A fastener comprising a plate having an opening near one end and its intermediate portion cut away and having an integral overhanging arm at the opposite end and a clamp l In testimony WhereofI aflix my signature in member plvotecl to the end of the overhangpresence of two witnesses.

ing arm, said clamp member when in engaging relation being inclined at its free end to- DONALD BREAUX' 5 Ward the plane of the plate and having its free Vitnesses:

end portion widened and forked and extended J. F. LANDRY,

across the opening near the end of. the plate. JOHN ABSHIRE, Jr. 

